#tim noakesmith

[thepastisalreadywritten]

29 March 2023

[industrybuzz]

Mammoth Meatballs, For Real

Company Creates Lab-Grown Mammoth Meatballs

Mammoth meat could be on the menu, if Australian company Vow is for real. Vow, the startup of Tim Noakesmith, has made lab-grown cultured meat. And they didn’t use beef or pork as a basis, they used mammoth. No actual mammoth cells were used, but the genetic information of the woolly mammoth is publicly available information. What was missing, Noakesmith filled in with genetic data from the…

[jaspersboy]

A giant meatball made from flesh cultivated using the DNA of an extinct woolly mammoth was unveiled on Tuesday at Nemo, a science museum in the Netherlands.

The meatball was created by Australian cultured meat company Vow which - promising this was not an April Fools' joke - said it wanted to get people talking about cultured meat, calling it a more sustainable alternative for real meat.

"We wanted to create something that was totally different from anything you can get now," Vow founder Tim Noakesmith told Reuters, adding that an additional reason for choosing mammoth is that scientists believe that the animal's extinction was caused by climate change.

[biglisbonnews]

Mammoth meatballs grown from ancient genetic information Think we can't eat them just because they're extinct? Think again! Enterprising geneticists introduced mammoth DNA to the shmeat looms to make ancient meatballs. Voila! This is not an April Fools joke," said Tim Noakesmith, founder of Australian startup Vow. — Read the rest https://boingboing.net/2023/03/29/mammoth-meatballs-grown-from-ancient-genetic-information.html